How accurate are these 2023 IQ numbers for American ethnic groups?

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It says that a white American mixing with a Asian American results in higher IQ than average white IQ and average Asian IQ. That makes zero sense.

This could be explained by whites and Asians who do inter-marry having higher IQ than their racial averages. In other words, maybe white guys marrying with Asians have higher IQ than the white male average?

Issue 2: How does Central & South American have an IQ of 94.7 when White Cuban have an IQ of 91.78? Don't Central & South Americans have less European genetics and more Amerindian genetics than White Cubans?

Maybe white Cubans on average aren't very bright and white Cubans in the US are less unrepresentative of white Cubans on average than south Americans in the US? In other words, South Americans in the US may be more selective than white Cubans, and white Cubans in Cuba probably have fairly low IQ.

Shouldn't Indian-Americans have the highest IQ? Their median household income is the highest compared to other ethnic groups. Higher IQ means higher income.

The correlation between income and IQ is only 0.15 or something. IQ is a better predictor of wealth (0.30) possibly because wealth requires generating income and reducing loss, and IQ correlates with income (0.15) and forward thinking.